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JOSEPHINE HUMPHREYS and RUTHIE BOLTON. HUMPHREYS is a fiction writer, who won the Pen/Hemingway award in 1985 for "Dreams of Sleep." She recently transcribed and edited the life story of RUTHIE BOLTON, who grew up in the same area of Charleston, South Carolina, as HUMPHREYS did. The novel is called "Gal" (Harcourt, Brace amd Co.) and details the the stories of BOLTON's life growing up with an abusive grandfather in 1960's South Carolina. The interview will include both BOLTON and HUMPHREYS.

DR.IRA RUTKOW is a surgeon and the author of the new book, "Surgery: An Illustrated History," (Mosby). The book has 386 illustrations including documents, photographs, cartoons, drawings and paintings related to surgery, taken from museums throughout the world. RUTKOW has also written a two-volume history of surgery in the U.S. and has written studies on Civil War surgery. He's also consulting editor for surgical history for the Archives of Surgery. RUTKOW is founder and surgical director of The Hernia Center in Freehold, N.J. and is clinical associate professor of surgery at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.

Commentator MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews "The Alienist" a new suspense novel by Caleb Carr. (Random House)REV. :World Music critic MILO MILES reviews two new releases by Oumou Sangare, the woman singer from Mali: "Moussolou" and "Ko Sira" both on Rounder''s World Circuit Label.

Playwright, female impersonator, and now novelist CHARLES BUSCH. His play, the camp classic, "Vampire Lesbians of Sodom," was the longest-running play in Off-Broadway history. His other plays include, "Psycho Beach Party," and "Red Scare on Sunset." He has a new show which parodies the variety shows of the 60s, "The Charles Busch Revue," in which he makes seven costume changes in an hour and 15 minutes. One reviewer writes, "Among New York's drag performers, he is certainly the most congenial. Instead of freezing into imperious divalike poses and spewing hostile sexual challenges, he is a man who revels in the opportunity to get himself up in drag, the more flamingly tacky the better, and create a party around it." BUSCH's first novel, "Whores of Lost Atlantis," will be published in November. (Hyp

Singer/songwriter SAM PHILLIPS is a former Christian singer who became disillusioned with the form, left it, changed her name (from Leslie), and started writing songs which explored her own singular spirituality. Since 1989 she's been making pop music that's been admired by the critics. One critic wrote of her 1991 album; "On the surface, Phillips seems just another wispy-voiced, ethereal singer-songwriter, writing moody songs chronicling the dangers of corruption and obsessive love. But (its) fraught with both beauty and tension." PHILLIPS newest album is "Martinis & Bikinis." (Virgin Records). PHILLIPS is married to T. Bone Burnett, who has produced several of her albums.

1: Writer LAURIE GARRETT has been a science reporter for NPR, New York "Newsday," "Omni," and other publications. GARRETT is also the author of the new book, "The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance" (Farrar, Straus, Giroux). The book explores the emergence of new infectious viruses like AIDS and Ebola, and the new strains of known diseases that are resistant to many treatments. GARRETT examines the conditions that favor the spread of these microbes and looks at possible solutions to stop the diseases.

2: Actor RIP TORN, who now plays the Arty, the producer on the HBO comedy series, "The Larry Sanders Show". TORN has been a stage actor since the mid-1950's, when he left his native Texas (and his first name "Elmore") behind, for New York City and the Actors Studio. Described by one reviewer as "the good-looking no-talent with the ludicrously sinister name", Torn was often typcast as a heavy in television shows like "Dr. Kildare" and "Bonanza." (He also portrayed Henry Miller in an X-rated film version of "Tropic of Cancer."). His latest feature film is "Where the Rivers Flow North" (Caledonia Pictures), where he plays a rural hero who has to survive by his wits, and with a hook hand.

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Maureen Corrigan reviews "A Very Long Engagement," by French novelist Sebastien Japrisot.

2: Actor and playwright DAVID DRAKE. In 1985, DRAKE saw the play "The Normal Heart" by playwright Larry Kramer. It was a turning point for DRAKE. Kramer went on to become a founder of ACT UP--the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power. DRAKE, a gay man, started on a path of self discovery and activism that has led to his writing a series of vignettes called "The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me" (Anchor Books).